Ted Toadvine, Ph.D.

Speaking

I have delivered many lectures and presentations nationally and internationally, including keynote and plenary addresses, conference presentations, invited lectures, and podcasts.

Below are links to selected podcasts and lectures available online, followed by a list of past lectures.

Please contact me to discuss invitations for speaking engagements.

Reproducing Animality

Friday, February 21, 2025
1:00-2:00 pm Eastern Time

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Human Extinction and Temporal Justice

Time, Waste, Extinction Workshop

Presentation at Penn State on September 17, 2024. Recorded by Acid Horizon. The video was posted on October 22nd, 2024. 47 min.

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The Memory of the World: Unraveling the Allure of Eco-Apocalypse

CETAPS+ Cultures of the Future Talks

Presentation to Cultures of the Future, Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, hosted by Manuel Sousa Oliveira (University of Porto / CETAPS), May 29th, 2024. The video was posted on November 29th, 2024. 31 min.

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Deconstructing Deep Time

The University of Minnesota Press Podcast

Interview with David Morris and Benjamin Décarie-Daigneault for the University of Minnesota Press, April 12th, 2024. The episode was posted on July 30th, 2024. 1 hr 18min.

University of Minnesota Press
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Deep Time, the Anthropocene Debate, and Eco-Phenomenology

The Land Behind Podcast

Interview with photographer Peter Holliday for the podcast The Land Behind: Conversations on Photography, Perception and Place, April 17th, 2024. The episode was posted on June 3rd, 2024. 3 hr 5 min.

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When is the Mind? Anthropocene Time and the Memory of the World

Presentation to the Danish Institute for Advanced Study Minds Group, presented on June 15th, 2022.

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Future Fossils: Phenomenology and the Crises of Time in the Anthropocene

Lecture for the Royal Holloway Centre for Continental Philosophy’s seminar series, University of London, presented on January 21st, 2022.

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Biodiacritics and the Memory of Life

Lecture at Thinking Extinction: The Science and Philosophy of Endangered Species and Extinction conference, Laurentian University, presented on November 15th, 2013.

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Podcasts

  1. Deep Time, the Anthropocene Debate, and Eco-Phenomenology. The Land Behind: Conversations on Photography, Perception and Place. Interviewed by Peter Holliday. Recorded 4/17/2024. Posted 6/3/2024.
    Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2UL8aCH1UrRrDApuCeIzzE?si=fc4dde3f652243e5
    Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/17-ted-toadvine-deep-time-the-anthropocene-debate-and/id1681131845?i=1000656192406
  2. Deconstructing Deep Time. The University of Minnesota Press. Interviewed by David Morris (Concordia University) and Benjamin Décarie-Daigneault (Penn State). Recorded 4/12/2024. Posted 7/30/2024.
    University of Minnesota Press: https://share.transistor.fm/s/4e47d08f
    Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/57pkAsncfPTYPVDRQx3e4Q
    Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/university-of-minnesota-press/id1576127720

Keynote and Plenary Lectures

  1. Future Fossils: Phenomenology and the Crises of Time in the Anthropocene. Keynote Address, Philosophy and Eschatology: 7th Annual International Conference of the Centre for Phenomenology in South Africa, University of Johannesburg, South Africa, 11/19/2021 (virtual).
  2. World in Ruins: Critical Ecophenomenology and Temporal Justice. Invited Plenary Lecture, Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Critical Phenomenology: Rethinking Politics, Affect, and Normativity. Città di Castello, Umbria, Italy, 7/23/2019.
  3. Touchstones: Geomateriality and Memory. Aron Gurwitsch Memorial Lecture, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Salt Lake City, 10/21/2016.
  4. Our Monstrous Futures: Global Sustainability and Eco-Eschatology. Plenary Panel on Future Earth, Future Life, Future People: Environment and Values. Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy, Concordia University, 10/30/2015.
  5. Speculative Realism and the End of the World. Keynote Address, 15th Annual Phenomenology Roundtable, California State University Fresno, 5/24/2015.
  6. Beyond Biodiversity: Toward a Diacritics of Life. Keynote Address, The Ethics of History and the History of Ethics Graduate Student Symposium, Oregon State University, 4/3/2015.
  7. Biodiacritics and the Memory of Life. Keynote Address, International Association for Environmental Philosophy, Eugene, Oregon, 10/26/2013.
  8. The Trouble with Biodiversity. Plenary Address, International Society for Environmental Ethics, University of East Anglia, UK, 6/13/2013 (virtual).
  9. The Time of Animal Voices. Keynote Address, Soundscapes & Territories: Philosophy and the Arts Conference, Stony Brook University, 3/30/2013.
  10. Melodic Nature and Rhythmic Life.Keynote address, Concordia and Ryerson Universities Graduate Workshop on Animality,Ryerson University, Toronto, 4/8/2011.

Conference Presentations (*refereed)

  1. Transcendental Exposure: On the Very Possibility of Touching Oneself Touching. Social Phenomenology Conference. Center for Subjectivity Research (University of Copenhagen) and the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology. University of Copenhagen, 10/11/2024.
  2. Human Extinction and Temporal Justice. Time, Waste, Extinction Workshop, The Rock Ethics Institute and Department of Philosophy, The Pennsylvania State University, 9/17/2024.
  3. Earth-Ground and Spatial Level: Orienting Critical Ecophenomenology. American Philosophical Association, Central Division (virtual), 2/26/2021.
  4. Critical Ecophenomenology and Temporal Justice. Conference on Relations and Institutions: The Political Implications of Merleau-Ponty’s Work, University of Regina, Saskatchewan, 5/10/2019.
  5. The Temporality of Climate Apocalypticism. International Conference on Nature and Humanity: Local and Global, Research Institute for the Humanities, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 12/7/2018.
  6. Climate Change and the Temporal Sublime. Canadian Philosophical Association. Montreal, 6/5/2018 (distributed in absentia; could not attend due to family emergency).
  7. The Case of Schneider Revisited. Commentary on Bryan Smyth. American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division (main program). Savannah, Georgia, 1/4/2018 (distributed in absentia; could not attend due to weather).
  8. Sustainability and the Apocalyptic Imagination. International Forum on Sustainable Solutions for New Era of Ecological Civilization, Center for Ecological Civilization, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 12/17/2017.
  9. Sustainability and Intercollegiate Athletics. Sports Ethics Conference, The Pennsylvania State University, 4/7/2017.
  10. Time to Stop Dreaming About the End of the World. What is Life? Conference, The University of Oregon (by weblink), 4/7/2017.
  11. * Time to Stop Dreaming About the End of the World. The International Association for Environmental Philosophy, Salt Lake City, 10/24/2016.
  12. Ecophenomenology in Retrospect. Roundtable on 20 Years of IAEP! International Association for Environmental Philosophy, Salt Lake City, 10/23/2016.
  13. Eschatology and the Elements. American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, San Francisco, 3/30/2016.
  14. Who is Responsible for the Climate? Climate Literacy: Reading the Anthropocene Symposium, Oakland University, Michigan, 10/15/2015.
  15. Speculative Realism at the End of the World. Speculative Realism/Phenomenology Workshop, University of Alberta, Edmonton, 4/10/2015.
  16. Hermeneutics and the New Realism: Response to Brian Treanor. Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, New Orleans, 10/24/2014.
  17. Human-Animal Transitions in the Art of Renwick and Weaver. Art of Endangered Species, Roundtable with artists Vanessa Renwick, Deke Weaver, and Carla Bengtson, Cinema Pacific Film Festival, Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, Oregon, 4/27/2014.
  18. Biodiacritics and the Memory of Life. Thinking Extinction: The Science and Philosophy of Endangered Species and Extinction. Laurentian University, 11/15/2013.
  19. * How Old is the Sun? Merleau-Ponty and the Elemental Past. The International Merleau-Ponty Circle, Duquesne University, 9/26/2013.
  20. The Time of Animal Voices. Defining the Human and the Animal, German Studies Conference, University of Oregon, 5/2/2013.
  21. * Nicolae Morar, Brendan Bohannan, and Ted Toadvine. From Science to Environmental Value: An Argument for a Critical Understanding of the Normative Role of Biodiversity. International Society for Environmental Ethics, American Philosophical Association, Atlanta, 12/27/2012.
  22. * Nicolae Morar, Brendan Bohannan, and Ted Toadvine. From Science to Environmental Value: An Argument for a Critical Understanding of the Normative Role of Biodiversity. International Association for Environmental Philosophy, Rochester, 11/5/2012.
  23. * Nature after Naturalism: Ecophenomenology and the Challenge of Multidisciplinarity. International Society for the Study of European Ideas, University of Cyprus, 7/3/2012.
  24. Cosmic Imagination and the End of the World. Conference on Imagination: Fantasia – Imaginatio – Einbildungskraft, The Center of Phenomenological Research, Charles University, Prague, 11/1/2012.
  25. Le temps des voix animales. L’homme et l’animal. Entre l’anthropologie et les phénoménologies. Department of French and German Philosophy, Charles University, Prague, 10/29/2012.
  26. Folding Nature’s Hands: Cézanne and the Impossibility of Silence. Invited lecture,The International Merleau-Ponty Circle, Fordham University, New York, 9/22/2012.
  27. * The Music of Being and the Silence of Nature. The International Merleau-Ponty Circle, Concordia College, 9/16/2011. (Accepted for presentation and distributed; could not attend due to illness).
  28. The Silence of Nature and the Emergence of Philosophy. Nature, Freedom, History: Merleau-Ponty after Fifty Years, Inaugural Conference of the Irish Phenomenological Circle, University College Dublin, 6/24/2011.
  29. Animal Pedagogy: Response to Kelly Oliver’s Keynote Address.International Association for Environmental Philosophy, Montréal, 11/6/2010.
  30. The Pre-Eminence of the Phenomenology of Material Nature. Research Symposium on the Continuing Impact of Husserl’s Ideen, Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology, Inc., New Orleans, 9/25/2010.
  31. Six Myths of Interdisciplinarity. Understanding Sustainability: Perspectives from the Humanities, Portland, 5/21/2010.
  32. * The Rupture with Nature in Levinas and Merleau-Ponty. Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition, Seattle, 10/8/2009.
  33. * Beyond Problem-Solving. Understanding Sustainability: Perspectives from the Humanities, Portland Center for Public Humanities, Portland, 5/15/2009.
  34. “Even-Handed Ecology” and Identity with Nature: Response to Fred Evans. Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Arlington, VA, 10/30/2009.
  35. * Truth and Resistance. Session on Merleau-Ponty’s Centenary, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Pittsburgh, 10/17/2008.
  36. Music, Nature, Being. Corps et Signes: International Colloquium of Philosophy and Social Sciences on the Occasion of the Centenary of the Birth of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Claude Lévi-Strauss, Instituto Franco-Português, Lisbon, Portugal, 11/22/2008.
  37. Ecophenomenology and the Resistance of Nature. In Memory of Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Environment, Embodiment and Gender, Bergen, Norway, 10/30/2008.
  38. Truth and Resistance. Coloquio Internacional: Merleau-Ponty Viviente en el centenario de su nacimiento (1908-2008), Morelia, Mexico, 9/5/2008.
  39. The Passage of Natural Time. Merleau-Ponty. L’espace et le temps, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Husserl Archives – Paris, 6/6/2008.
  40. The Resistance of Truth in Merleau-Ponty. Être à la vérité – Maurice Merleau-Ponty 1908-2008, Basel University, Switzerland, 3/11/2008.
  41. The Space of Intentionality and the Orientation of Being. Spaces and Places: Tensions of a Paradigm, International Conference of the German Society for Phenomenology, Darmstadt, Germany, 10/4/2007.
  42. Ecophenomenology and the Resistance of Nature. Second International Conference on Phenomenology as Bridge between Asia and the West, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, 2/11/2007.
  43. * Cronon’s Doubt: Expression and the Phenomenology of Nature. International Association for Environmental Philosophy, Philadelphia, 10/15/2006.
  44. Scholar’s Session on David Wood. Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Philadelphia, 10/13/2006.
  45. * The Question of the Animal in Merleau-Ponty. Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Salt Lake City, 10/21/2005.
  46. * Can Nature be Framed? A Phenomenological Contribution to Ecological Aesthetics. International Association for Environmental Philosophy, Salt Lake City, 10/23/2005.
  47. * ‘Strange Kinship’: Merleau-Ponty on the Human-Animal Relation. Fifty-Fifth International Phenomenology Congress, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 8/17/2005.
  48. * The Interrogative Fold of Animality. American Society for Literature and the Environment, Eugene, OR, 6/22/2005.
  49. Witnessing Flesh: Response to James Hatley. Future Trends in Environmental Philosophy Joint Conference (International Society for Environmental Ethics/International Association for Environmental Philosophy), Estes Park, Colorado, 6/3/2004.
  50. Gestalts and Refrains: On Holism and Expression in Nature. University of Memphis Alumni Conference, 5/15/2004.
  51. * Life’s Refrain: Expression without Organisms. The International Merleau-Ponty Circle, London, Ontario, 9/18/2003.
  52. * Singing the World in a New Key: Toward a Theory of Natural Expression. International Association for Environmental Philosophy, Loyola University, Chicago, 10/13/2002.
  53. Culture and Cultivation: Toward a Philosophy of Agriculture. Toward a Taxonomy of Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Seminar on Ecological Theory and Practice, Matfield Green, KS, 6/6/2002.
  54. Expression and Temporality in Merleau-Ponty and Bergson: Response to Alia Al-Saji. Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Goucher College, 10/5/2001.
  55. Ecophenomenology in the New Millennium. Research Symposium on Issues for Phenomenology’s Second Century, Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology, Inc., Delray Beach, Florida, 1/4/2001.
  56. * Phenomenological Method in Merleau-Ponty’s Critique of Gurwitsch. American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, New York, NY, 12/30/2000.
  57. * Chiasm and Chiaroscuro: Merleau-Ponty’s Overcoming of the Epochē. International Symposium on Phenomenology, Perugia, Italy, 6/18/2000.
  58. * Naturalizing Phenomenology? Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Eugene, OR, 10/8/1999.
  59. * The Post-Phenomenological Horizon. The International Merleau-Ponty Circle, Wrexam, Wales, 7/30/1999 (presented in absentia).
  60. Leaving Husserl’s Cave? The Philosopher’s Shadow Revisited. Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology, Inc., Research Symposium on Merleau-Ponty’s Reading of Husserl, Delray Beach, Florida, 11/19/1999.
  61. * Environmental Sensibility and the Nature of Desire. International Association for Environmental Philosophy, Denver, 10/11/1998.
  62. In Wildness is the Refusal of the World: Gerald Bruns’s Reading of Maurice Blanchot. Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Denver, 10/8/1998.
  63. * The Cogito in Merleau-Ponty’s Theory of Intersubjectivity. American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Philadelphia, 12/28/1997.
  64. * The Cartesian Cogito in Husserl and Merleau-Ponty. Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Lexington, KY, 10/18/1997.
  65. * Nature and Negation: Merleau-Ponty’s Reading of Bergson. The International Merleau-Ponty Circle, Seattle University, 9/18/1997.
  66. * The Cartesian Cogito in Husserl and Merleau-Ponty. Florida Philosophical Association, Ocala, 11/8/1996.
  67. * The Ethical Expert in Theory and Practice. Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Nashville, 4/5/1996.
  68. * The Prose of the World: From Gesture to Speech. Mid-South Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, 2/24/1996.
  69. * Beyond Mere Consciousness: Embodied Intentionality (in collaboration with Tom Nenon). Philosophical Collaborations Conference, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 4/3/1995.
  70. * Dying Otherwise: Différance in Derrida; Projection in Merleau-Ponty. Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Seattle University, 10/1/1994.
  71. * Wonder and the Abyss: Radical Interrogation and Alterity in Merleau-Ponty. The International Merleau-Ponty Circle, Berry College, 9/23/1994.
  72. Merleau-Ponty’s Refusal of the Absolute Other. Collegium Phaenomenologicum, “The Futures of Phenomenology: Heidegger, Levinas, Merleau-Ponty.” Perugia, Italy, 7/16/1994.

Other Invited Lectures

  1. The Memory of the World: Unraveling the Allure of Eco-Apocalypse. Cultures of the Future Talks, Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Nova University of Lisbon and University of Porto (virtual), 5/29/2024.
  2. When is the Mind? Anthropocene Time and the Memory of the World. Danish Institute for Advanced Study, University of Southern Denmark (virtual), 6/15/2022.
  3. Visions Past, Visions to Come. Workshop on Translation Release of Merleau-Ponty’s The Possibility of Philosophy: Course Notes from the Collège de France, 1959–1961. Pace University (virtual), 3/25/2022.
  4. Future Fossils: Phenomenology and the Crises of Time in the Anthropocene. Centre for Continental Philosophy, Royal Holloway, University of London (virtual), 1/21/2022.
  5. Why Are We Obsessed with the End of the World? Without Limits: Interdisciplinary Conversations in the Liberal Arts. SUNY New Paltz, 2/10/2020.
  6. Climate Change and the Apocalyptic Image of Time. Department of Geography Colloquium, Penn State University, 10/25/2019.
  7. Moral Literacy and Ethics Research. Penn State Liberal Arts Luncheon (College of the Liberal Arts Development Council and Rock Ethics Institute External Advisory Board), Penn State University, 10/18/2019.
  8. Climate Apocalypticism and the Temporal Sublime. Phenomenology Research Seminar, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Helsinki, Finland, 2/14/2019.
  9. “In a World without World”: Eschatology and the Elements. Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University, London, UK, 4/12/2018.
  10. The End of All Things: A Phenomenology of Elemental Time. Department of Philosophy Inaugural lecture, The Pennsylvania State University, 3/31/2017.
  11. Eschatology and the Elements. The Pennsylvania State University, 2/15/2016.
  12. Biodiversity and the Diacritics of Life. DePaul University, 11/14/2014.
  13. The Elemental Past. Stony Brook University, 2/14/2014.
  14. Diacritics of the Inexpressible: On Veronique Foti’s Tracing Expression in Merleau-Ponty: Aesthetics, Philosophy of Biology, and Ontology. Penn State University, 12/6/2013.
  15. Biodiacritics and the Memory of Life. Loyola Marymount University, 10/18/2013.
  16. Naturalism, Estrangement, and Resistance: On the Lived Senses of Nature. Mellon Research Initiative in Environments & Societies Workshop, University of California at Davis, 11/14/2012.
  17. The Fundamental Paradox of Ecophenomenology. University of Kentucky, 11/11/2011.
  18. The Fundamental Paradox of Ecophenomenology. Michigan State University, 3/4/2011.
  19. Animality After Merleau-Ponty. Vanderbilt University, 2/2/2011.
  20. Econstruction and Later Heidegger: A Conversation with David Wood. Vanderbilt University, 2/1/2011.
  21. Dragonfly Eyes: Multiple Ways to Envision the Future Field Symposium, Invited Participant, H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest and Spring Creek Project, 4/30–5/2/2010.
  22. The Question of the Animal in Merleau-Ponty. University of California at Santa Cruz, 2/7/2008.
  23. The Place of Beauty in a World of Fact: A Phenomenology of Environmental Aesthetics. Center for Applied Ethics, California State University, Long Beach, 11/8/2005.
  24. Temptations of the Garden: The Agricultural Roots of our Environmental Crisis. Gettysburg College, 1/26/2001.
  25. The World-as-Desire and its Environmental Consequences. Emporia State University, 4/14/1998.
  26. The Experience of the Other Person in Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology. Kalamazoo College, 5/30/1997.
  27. The Art of Doubting: Merleau-Ponty on Contemporary Painting. University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 4/17/1996.